At CeBIT 2004, Marconi is showing enhancements to its BXR-48000 multiservice router for supporting packet voice convergence over a common core.
Marconi’s BXR-48000 provides up to 480 Gbps of full-duplex, deterministically, non-blocking throughput (960 Gbps simplex) and handles IP routing, MPLS switching and ATM switching simultaneously while maintaining predictability and high-performance.
Marconi said the BXR-48000 can also function as a Broadband Gateway (BBGW) to a converged core, as well as providing integrated network support to allow physical network convergence and flexible adaptation of legacy services to a converged packet core.
Technical features in the BXR-48000 Release 2.0 include Packet over Sonet/ SDH (POS) interfaces up to OC-192c/STM-64, and IP/MPLS functionality such as DiffServ-aware Traffic Engineering, OSPF-TE, IS-IS TE, BGP-4, RSVP-TE, LDP, RFC 2547 VPNs and PWE3 for ATM over MPLS.
Services enabled by the new features include packet-voice convergence, IP VPNs and IP streaming video, Internet services, as well as support for the most rigorous network security and data encryption on the market. http://www.marconi.com
